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Of course there's no right click. Steve Jobs didn't believe in two-button mice, so there never was any right button on standard Apple stuff. Guess that extended to the iPad. Anyway, I don't have an iPad, so can't tell you.

(Can tell you that Steve used to like spiced tea, though. Actually, both Steve's did. Wonder if Woz still does?)

The iPad screen is a multitouch surface so it will recognise more than simple left and right clicks. To achieve actions normally done with a right click on a computer you would either, depending on the app being used and the action required, double tap on the screen or tap and hold to bring up a menu to select from.

"I'm here to save your life. But if I'm going to do that, I'll need total uninanonynymity." Me Myself & Irene.
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..When you actually hear Gladwell explain how the single button mouse came about, though, the genius of the decision really clicks. Not only is a single button mouse an easier interface to introduce to users either new to computers or used to text-only input, but it dropped the build price of the mouse to a level where every consumer could afford to buy one.

.. but I hate mice that have loads of buttons - I'm always pressing them when I don't mean to

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an easier interface to introduce to users either new to computers or used to text-only input...

My two-year-old twin grandkids (okay, 2 years, 7 monhts) already know how to use a mouse, not to mention an iPad, Nook, and what buttons to push to find the Netflix movie they want to watch. (And the granddaughter [there's one of each gender] figured out how to *ORDER* new pay-per-view movies! You can bet the parental control password got added real quick after that episode!)

Don't get me wrong, I was one of those who doubted that people needed anything more powerful than an 8-bit computer. But at least I changed my mind quickly when WYSIWYG word processing appeared.